Senate Candidate Trips At Parade, Needs Stitches

Other News to Note - Northeast

May 30, 2000

BABYLON, N.Y. - Rep. Rick Lazio fell and cut his lip during a Memorial Day parade Monday, and it took eight stitches to close up the wound. Lazio, who recently replaced New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as the GOP Senate candidate, stopped along the parade route in this Long Island town to shake hands. He was sprinting back to rejoin the march - as he had done several times before - when he lost his footing and fell on his face. He got up, brushed himself off and kept walking, but he appeared slightly dazed. The top of his lip on the right side of his mouth was cut and bleeding.